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Snowtrout fishery in Garhwal Himalaya: Causes of depletion and strategy for propagation

open access: yesEnvironment Conservation Journal, 2009
Snowtrout  (Schizothorax sp.)  is  an  important group  of fishes  in Indian  uplands   and  is prone  to decline due to several  anthropogenic  activities  and natural  disasters.  However,  the natural  behaviour of the  group   is  also  one  of the  
N.K. Agarwal, Harpal Singh
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Plant diversity in a changing world: Status, trends, and conservation needs

open access: yesPlant Diversity, 2016
The conservation of plants has not generated the sense of urgency—or the funding—that drives the conservation of animals, although plants are far more important for us.
Richard T. Corlett
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One Conservation concept in practice

open access: yesTheriogenology Wild, 2023
The One Conservation is an integrative process for biodiversity conservation. This communication describes how this integrated method, involving many institutions, resulted in the birth of a jaguar cub that should be reintroduced to the wild, thereby ...
Thiago Cavalheri Luczinski   +14 more
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How to conserve threatened Chinese plant species with extremely small populations?

open access: yesPlant Diversity, 2016
The Chinese flora occupies a unique position in global plant diversity, but is severely threatened. Although biodiversity conservation in China has made significant progress over the past decades, many wild plant species have extremely small population ...
Sergei Volis
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Distributions, conservation status, and abiotic stress tolerance potential of wild cucurbits (Cucurbita L.)

open access: yesPlants, People, Planet, 2020
Societal Impact Statement Crop wild relatives—wild species closely related to cultivated plants—are valuable genetic resources for crop improvement, but gaps in knowledge constrain their conservation and limit their further use.
Colin K. Khoury   +11 more
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The origin of human chromosome 2 analyzed by comparative chromosome mapping with a DNA microlibrary [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
Fluorescencein situ hybridization (FISH) of microlibraries established from distinct chromosome subregions can test the evolutionary conservation of chromosome bands as well as chromosomal rearrangements that occurred during primate evolution and will ...
A Baldini   +32 more
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The beauty of conservation – developing a science-based conservation horticulture programme at Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania, USA

open access: yesSibbaldia
While historically serving ornamental, medicinal and agricultural purposes, botanic gardens and arboreta have opened their doors to the public and have extended their missions to encompass the study, preservation and support of plant diversity. Longwood
Peter Zale   +2 more
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Planning the integration of ex situ plant conservation in Tasmania [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Tasmania has a strong record of successful in situ plant conservation but there will always be a role for the integration of various ex situ measures into a plant conservation program due to pressure by threatening processes on wild populations.
Crane, Nepelle   +2 more
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Agrobiodiversity and Its Conservation in Nepal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Nepal is a part of the world\u27s biodiversity hotspot and ranks the 49th in the world for biodiversity. Agrobiodiversity and its conservation status were studied through literature review, field survey, key informant survey and focus group discussion ...
Ghimire, K. H. (Krishna)   +8 more
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In Situ Conservation of Dry Meadows

open access: yesLand
Grassland ecosystems are increasingly vulnerable as they are threatened by both intensive agriculture and abandonment of land use, which leads to overgrowth with scrub vegetation and forest. Given that meadows are habitat types of very high biodiversity, their loss significantly reduces local biodiversity.
Bavcon, Jože   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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